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Adjective(1) making claim to or creating an appearance of (often undeserved(2) intended to attract notice and impress others(3) (of a display

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(1) If we were too serious it might have come off as pretentious , heavy handed or silly.(2) Towards the other wives and their children she was always extremely imperious, haughty and pretentious .(3) If it looks or sounds pretentious , then that is what it will be accused of.(4) Some thought her pretentious , of which there are many greater crimes.(5) Of course a lot of what he said was pretentious rubbish but that is normal for art critics.(6) I was going to make a Cold War analogy here, but, let's face it, that would be ridiculously pretentious .(7) One of the things I dislike is pretentious people who chat a lot of hot air.(8) It's pleasingly literary without being pretentious ; plot is in no way sacrificed to prose.(9) Is it just pretentious rhetoric that I am using to avoid facing myself?(10) To say that the music is overblown and pretentious is rather an understatement.(11) He also had a convoluted and elaborate manner of speech that many thought pretentious .(12) What you want to do if you actually fancy being a pretentious intellectual is read the book.(13) It's loved by a small band of pretentious types who dress in black.(14) The council fools no one with its pretentious claims for being ├ö├ç├┐of world stature├ö├ç├û.(15) Apparently, the language used by wine writers is too flowery and pretentious .(16) What critic, or prince, could resist something so impressive and so pretentious ?

Synonyms

Adjective

1. affected ::

लग जाना

2. ostentatious ::

दिखावटी

3. showy ::

दिखावटी

4. overambitious ::

महत्वाकांक्षी

5. pompous ::

गर्वित

6. artificial ::

कृत्रिम

7. inflated ::

हवा भरा हुआ

8. overblown ::

हद से ज़्यादा

9. high-sounding ::

बुलंद

10. flowery ::

लच्छेदार

11. grandiose ::

दिखावटी

12. elaborate ::

विस्तृत

13. extravagant ::

फ़िजूल ख़र्च

14. flamboyant ::

चमकीला

15. ornate ::

सरूप

17. magniloquent ::

आडंबरपूर्ण

18. sophomoric ::

sophomoric

19. flashy ::

चमकीला

20. highfalutin ::

highfalutin

21. fancy-pants ::

फैंसी पैंट

22. la-di-da ::

ला-डाई-दा

23. pseudo ::

मिथ्या

Antonyms

1. modest ::

मामूली

Different Forms

pretentious, pretentiously, pretentiousness, unpretentious

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